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The Rabouilleuse showed the most servile attentions and the utmost tenderness to her master; fancied his head was too low, beat up the pillows, and took care of him like a bride of yesterday. The poor creature received it with a rush of feeling.
However, in 1841 he substituted "Les Deux Freres," which was the first part of "La Rabouilleuse," for "Les Paysans," and offered the latter work as if finished to Le Messager and also to the publisher Locquin, under the title of "La Chaumiere et le Chateau."
But the Parisians were not clever enough; that lawyer can't crow over us Berrichons!" "How abominable!" "That's Paris for you!" "The Rabouilleuse knew they came to attack her, and she defended herself." "She did gloriously right!" To the townspeople at large the Bridaus were Parisians and foreigners; they preferred Max and Flore.
He could, without discredit and by the laws of nepotism, live in his uncle's house and at his uncle's expense; but he could not have Flore unless her character were whitewashed. Hampered by this difficulty, and stimulated by the hope of finally getting hold of the property, the idea came into his head of making his uncle marry the Rabouilleuse.
And he wears a lot of crosses on his breast! And he struts about at court instead of being bastinadoed! And the scoundrel is called Monsieur le Comte!" "There are many like him," said Bixiou. "After all," said Joseph, "the Rabouilleuse deserves her fate, whatever it is. She is not worth pitying; she'd have had my neck wrung like a chicken's without so much as saying, 'He's innocent."
Flore, acting by Max's advice, pretended that Monsieur was too feeble to take walks, and that he ought, at his age, to have a carriage. At the close of the week, all Issoudun was amazed to learn that the old man had gone to Bourges to buy a carriage, a step which the Knights of Idleness regarded as favorable to the Rabouilleuse.
"What do you suppose that old gorilla wants at his age with a little girl only fifteen years old?" society was still saying two years after the arrival of the Rabouilleuse. "Ah! that's true," they answered, "his days of merry-making are long past."
That date may indicate, to a perspicacious observer, the epoch at which Flore Brazier ceased to be an honest girl. The Rabouilleuse, clever enough to foresee Fanchette's probable defection, there is nothing like the exercise of power for teaching policy, was already resolved to do without a servant.
The pouting of a fine lady is the same thing as the violence of a Rabouilleuse. At all levels, bitter sayings, ironical jests, cold contempt, hypocritical complaints, false quarrels, win as much success as the low outbursts of this Madame Everard of Issoudun. Max began to relate, with much humor, the tale of Fario and his barrow, which made the old man laugh.
My uncle is held down under an absolute thraldom, if I may judge by certain things which the Spaniard has heard Max say to your boys. I suspect Max and the Rabouilleuse of a scheme to make sure of the fifty thousand francs' income from the Funds, and then, after pulling that feather from their pigeon's wing, to run away, I don't know where, and get married.
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